Get the full story it was flying from Belfast to London https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-52539141 irrefuckingsponsible if not illegal. Would you have boarded? Should it have been allowed? Is anyone responsible?
I know Aer Lingus is an Irish airline, but social distancing still applies, especially if they are flying into a country that doesn’t do health checks on arrivals, or enforce isolating.
Exactly that. My son’s almost mother in law, has been stuck (if that’s the word for it) in Barbados for 6 weeks. She is being repatriated at the end of the week and wants her son to drive to Heathrow to collect her. Her excuse for not catching a taxi home is “because she doesn’t know who’s been sat in the taxi before her”. Seriously, she’s about to spend 8+hours in a plane, breathing in recycled air, not knowing who was sat in the seat before her, but won’t get in a taxi on arrival.
Yes but your last comment was trying to place blame on the UK government for an overcrowded Irish plane.
It was flying from one part of the U.K. to another, so the fact that Aer Lingus is an Irish airline is irrelevant.
Here’s an interesting one. A senior member of the NHS, working in Southampton, needed a coronavirus test. He was directed, via a website, to visit a car park in Winchester, for said test. When he arrived, he saw many people, like him, who had arrived to be tested. Unfortunately there was nobody there to do the tests, so all those who went there were wasting their time. The location for the tests was later removed from the official website, no explanation, no apology, nothing. Just wondering if all those people, who booked to attend that site, were counted as being tested, even though they weren’t.
Distancing rules were flouted Tom, on a UK internal flight both at the airport(s) and in the plane. It's up to the government to put regulations in place to prevent such things happening. It allows transmission, what's all the test and trace all about, the isolation we've been doing when this happens? II don't suppose it's a one off. As I asked before would you have boarded or even queued at the airport?
The White House is basing their current response on a curve that they fitted in Microsoft Excel. I'm not joking. This is, I must stress, not how anything works. Note where it suddenly drops to zero? That's because they set a floor. Otherwise, their graph would show people rising from the dead in large numbers, starting in mid-May, because fitting a curve in Excel IS NOT EPIDEMIOLOGY YOU ABSOLUTE CHUCKLEFUCKS.
Just looked over the proposed app from the govt. So frustrated and disappointed from an IT point of view. Something that could have been so useful will only be used by so few because of the privacy concerns. Frustrated as the Australian app is there and everything we need from a privacy point of view and also the fact that a European app is being launched that is more or less there (and based on the code from the Australian app). Wasted opportunity and waste of money. EDIT: Been reading more on it. Apple and Google are incorporating it as an option into their operating systems that exposes an API (way for something to connect to it) to a local health authority. Part of their remit is that: Apps must be created by or for a government public health authority and they can only be used for COVID-19 response efforts. Apps must require users to consent before the app can use the API. Apps must require users to consent before sharing a positive test result with the public health authority. Apps should only collect the minimum amount of data necessary and can only use that data for COVID-19 response efforts. All other uses of user data, including targeting advertising, is not permitted. Apps are prohibited from seeking permission to access Location Services. Use of the API will be restricted to one app per country to promote high user adoption and avoid fragmentation. If a country has opted for a regional or state approach, Apple and Google are prepared to support those authorities. The government app doesn't plug into this unfortunately. Other countries will.
Wait till they find out that they were in fact OK after all https://www.tripsavvy.com/air-quality-during-your-flight-54164
Popped out to the post box, this morning. A disconcerting sign, on the block’s entry door says that we have “suspected cases of covid-19” in the block. I know that some residents, here, are having visitors who occasionally go inside, which is taking a big risk, especially as there is a resident care team who interact with several residents on a frequent basis, who could be spreading the virus, if brought in by the visitors. Keeping Mrs Badger wrapped up in cotton wool for the foreseeable. Being on the top floor, and the furthest from the lift, means that we get no through traffic, so staying away from people is easy for us.
This is a bit of a twist. France’s first coronavirus victim was actually a month earlier than thought. Tests on samples from someone treated for pneumonia have revealed that he actually had covid-19 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52526554
"As President Donald Trump touted plans to reopen the US economy at a mask factory in Phoenix, Arizona, Live And Let Die blared over a loudspeaker." Video on this page.. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-52553430/page/2 You couldn't make it up.
When you have a job so grim, yet you can find it within yourself to be this generous of heart, there is hope. What a truly remarkable woman ..... The Morgue Worker, the Body Bags and the Daffodils She places the yellow flowers on the bodies of coronavirus victims waiting in grim, refrigerated trailers, hoping to give them a measure of respect. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/...ja8SvI3LsW0Avbullh6DKoDbwoheXpG11HFpLq2qViQDY
